Joey King and Logan Lerman star in Hulu’s limited series based on the best-selling historical novel.
Its always daunting to press play on a TV show, movie, or documentary about the Holocaust.
As necessary and important as these stories are, theyre also agonizing.
Joey King and Logan Lerman in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’.Vlad Cioplea/Hulu
Itll pass, Genek assures Addy.
Radom is not Germany.
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His optimism, as we know now, was misguided.
Joey King, Lior Ashkenazi.Vlad Cioplea/Hulu
ButLucky Onesalso emphasizes the invisible torture thats intrinsic to the daily act of survival.
If we look as sad as we feel, we may as well just announce ourselves.
Faith is a choice, says Herta.
Its an act of will.
That theme, which recurs through countless other Holocaust survival stories, is what makes the tragedy ofLucky Onesbearable.
As the feisty and quick-witted Halina, King is the emotional engine of the series.
For Jewish survivors, the struggles of World War II didnt end on VE Day.
